...GANGSTERS... by The Specials
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*Released 1979*
(modified from Winston Campbell's original tab: jieuryli@eden.rutgers.edu)
Intro:
(Spoken):
Bernie Rhodes knows; don't argue!
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Verse 1:
Why must you record my phone calls?
Are you planning a bootleg L-P?
Said you've been threatened by gangsters;
Now it's you that's threatening me.
Verse 2:
Can't fight cor-ruption with con tricks,
They use the law to commit crime.
And I dread, dread to think, what the future will bring,
When we're living in gangster time.
(Spoken):
Don't call me scar face!
Interlude:
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Solo:
(Guitar plays):
(x3),
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Verse 3:
Can't inter-rupt while I'm talking,
Or they'll confiscate all your gui-tars,
And catch 22 says, if I sing the truth;
They won't make me an overnight star.
Verse 4:
Don't offer us legal pro-tection,
They use the law to commit crime.
And I dread, dread to think, what the future will bring,
When we're living in gangster time.
(Bernie Rhodes knows; don't argue!)
Outro:
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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)